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Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the most detailed and intricate rides in any Disney park. It was detailed enough to inspire a full film franchise.
The Disney World version, not so much. This is the shortest of any version of the ride. The reason for this is that it was an afterthought for the Magic Kingdom.
Pirates of the Caribbean was never meant to be built in Disney World. A western version of the ride was supposed to be made, but popular demand forced Disney to rush a version to their Floridian park.
It was tucked in a small corner, not allowing for many of the scenes from the original Disneyland version and even cutting out one of the drops.
While the town scenes are the same, the cave, transitions, and endings are much shorter in this version than any other.

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This year Halloween DIY project recreates famous tombstones from the Haunted Mansion.
To do this you need a piece of wood (Exact size depends on the scale of your project) and a handheld carving tool.
First, you must write whatever saying you need on the wood.
Then carve it out and shape the wood to look like a tombstone.
Finally, spray paint it with stone colored spray paint (You can find it at Home Depot).
It may also be helpful to wood glue on an extra piece of wood at the bottom in the back for stability depending on how you will be displaying the tombstone.
Check out a video guide below:

The submarine voyage has been a staple of Tomorrowland at Disneyland since it opened, is the only long-term successful ride to ever fill the lagoon. When it closed it left a giant hole (Literally) in the park.
Luckily Disney saw fit to bring this ride back. They just had to wait for the right movie. They wanted to with Atlantis, but it flopped. Then came Finding Nemo.
It was an almost perfect situation. Disney had a new popular movie and Disneyland had a usable underwater ride system.
This was a hit since it opened, despite problems with claustrophobia and being slow loading. It transports you into the Great Barrier Reef along with Nemo and his friend by bringing you underwater to his world.

Disney Parks are never finished and always looking for ways to expand. Epcot is the current park at Disney World most in need of expansion. All other three parks have had massive expansions in the past ten years while Epcot has gotten a reimagined Test Track and Norway Pavilion.
There is currently a massive expansion project at Epcot. These are just my ideas on the best way it could play out, including all already announced projects.

We'll start from the top and go clockwise. New Entrance
One of the most important things is to come of this renovation would be a new entrance. This would include either the removal or complete redesign of the Leave Legacy stones, making them look less like tombstones and returning the glass pillars to the entrance fountain. Guardians of the Galaxy
This is a rollercoaster replacing Universe of Energy themed to the Marvel franchise Guardians of the Galaxy. Wonders of Life
This should be the obvious one. It is a gi…

All of the focus at Disneyland in 2019 is going to be on the new rides of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, but they aren't the only new rides opening up at the Disneyland Resort in 2019. Pixar Pier is getting its first expansion of two reskinned rides.
One of these is the first Disney ride ever based on Inside Out. It will be a redone version of Flik's Flyers from A Bug's Land in the former location of the Maliboomer.
On this, you will be carried around by giant memory orbs and there will be statues of the five emotions scattered in the area of the ride.

It's the spookiest time of the year so for the last Theater Thursday before Halloween, let's take a look at the best musicals for this time of year.
Little Shop of Horrors
Whats better for Halloween than a man-eating plant with plans of world domination. This classic musical is a great comedy with a horrific twist that makes it fun to watch at this time of the year (The movie or a stage production).
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
This musical brings you to industrial London where a barber seeks to right the wrongs of society by killing rich and poor and cooking them into pies. It's a comedy! And great for this time of year (Just the stage version, don't watch the movie).
Rocky Horror Picture Show
How could we leave out the ultimate Haloween musical? This show is famous for its midnight showings with audience participation and is the show most associated with Halloween.

One of the three mountains of the Magic Kingdom, this ride takes you through an abandoned mining town where spirits have taken control of the trains and send you on the wildest ride in the wilderness.

Country Bear Jamboree

This ride features many singing groups of bears singing comical country songs. You may even see a few of the bears wandering around outside their theater picking up trash or causing mayhem.

Splash Mountain

Another of the three mountains, this ride is based on the animated sequences of Song of the South and follows the story of Brer Rabbit and his quest for the Laughing Place. It ends with one of the largest drops in Disney World.

The Enchanted Tiki Room is a classic Disney attraction. The only thing different about it on both coasts is its pre-show.
In Disneyland, the preshow is a series of tiki gods introducing themselves with some slight effects along with it. Disney World, with its large amounts of extra space allowed for a more complex preshow featuring two birds telling a story about the jungle.

Tomorrowland is one of the most constantly updated lands in any Disney park. It constantly has to keep up with the present, so rides are in constant rotation. Disneyland is no exception. Rides
Tomorrowland is home to many rides set in futuristic or sci-fi realms that allow you to leave today and enter tomorrow. Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
This is a 21st-century take on the first Star Wars ride. It is the same as in any other Disney park worldwide and features the same randomized scenes. This is a good placeholder until Star Wars Land opens up in the future.

Astro Orbiter
This is the same type of spinner as the classic Dumbo but with a less comfortable ride vehicle. I mean this ride HURTS. It does give a great view of the center of the park, however, which can provide great above ground pictures of the park. Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters
This is the same shooter as in other Tomorrowlands. If you have only been on the Disney World version, this one is be…

Take a look at the lost float from Disneyland's newest night parade.
During its original run in Disneyland, Paint the Night featured a Frozen float just before the Mickey Mouse finale.
This played during the entire Diamond Celebration but when the parade reopened in California Adventure this float was gone.
The castle was too tall to fit under the trolley wires on Buena Vista Street and Hollywoodland so it was replaced with the shorter Incredibles float.

Since the attraction first opened, one of the birds of the Enchanted Tiki Room has been missing. No, I am not talking about the Orange Bird who was removed from the Magic Kingdom version. I am talking about Rosita.
Who is Rosita?
What we know is she was one of the girls of the Enchanted Tiki Room along with Gigi, Fifi...
Jose points out that she is missing with his famous line "I wonder what happened to Rosita?"
Now we know...
She left the Enchanted Tiki Room to run Disneyland's new Tropical Hideaway just outside the Tiki Room.
This seems to be similar to what happened with Albert Falls in the Skipper Canteen, where a one-liner joke becomes a fully fleshed out character and I love it.